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#61
What the odds though he sticks with the same formation and same team which played against Grimsby, Wednesday and Notts.
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#62
Same formation. Maguire has a chance of a game, McGinn, who could play in a back three (IMO), certainly won't.

Best comment came from Blue about Caldwell being our king. A team made up of just two of his imports, those he already appears to be discarding and youngsters scores FIVE.

Some king.
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#63
Lets be fair Dev hes the one bringing the kids through .He gave Rowley a chance when Wilson wouldnt.
.Id find a place for Mcginn .Ive always though he was a steady player.
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#64
Yeah Pooch, he gave Rowley a chance and put five youngsters from other clubs in front of the rest of our own. He played Ebanks-Blake and Faupala and never gave German a game, despite him scoring 11 goals in under three weeks. No one on this planet could think that was a good thing. And to tell the truth Rowley only got a game once we'd made pretty sure we were going down even if he turned out to be Zidane.

Maguire, Dimaio, Wakefield, Parkin, Smith, Brownell, Ofoegbu, German, Fowler even Mitchell what smell did they get of influencing the pathetic result at Notts County? Brewster gets the odd few minutes .........The only youngster GC's bringing on to league football at the moment is Lou Reed and he's doing it for Sheff Utd. Of course he can't play them all. Of course I'm in favour of friendlies against adult part-timers eager to prove themselves. They have a lot to learn, but let's see on Saturday if GC has learned anything?

McGinn played alongside young, inexperienced defenders up against older, stronger opponents and it sounds as though the defence did pretty well. If GC were learning he'd start off his defence on Saturday with McGinn and Maguire and perhaps one from Hird/Evatt/Wiseman, or if he finally goes for four at the back make Wiseman right back, McGinn left back and play Maguire with either Hird or Evatt. Sadly I think McGinn only has slightly more chance of playing than me.

And of the youngsters I'm guessing if Robbie Weir's breathing he'll be in front of Dimaio, Brewster will be on the bench, maybe beside Mitchell and Ricky German will be in the stands wondering how big Levi Amantchi will grow.
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#65
You cant win anything with kids as Alan Hansen once said and yes I know he was referring to the class of 92 but that was an exception.
We have to bring these youngsters through gradually ,drip feed them into the team if they are good enough .As eager as you are Dev ,If we played them all together we would be down before Christmas.Most of them aren't really good enough at the moment but they probably will be in time .
We do have lots of promising youngsters coming through and if nurtured and managed properly could give us a bright future.
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#66
We should do what Plymouth Argyle do and play the reserve team in the Hope Valley League or the Midland football league it would give youth players a chance and would help players coming back from injury gain match fitness.
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#67
Average age of the first team is 23. So you could say Devon that he is giving the young players a chance. Also we are meant to be signing Jordan Flores on loan from Wigan he's a midfielder.
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#68
Just great, bring even more other teams youngsters in and give them game time over our own.
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#69
Well I don't want to bring in other teams' youngsters over our own either but thank FCKU for Jordan Flores. A midfielder who can also play in defence. That's exactly what GC should have been looking for since last season's transfer window. Slow learner, but he kind of nearly got there in the end. Signs him on a Friday so he doesn't get the week training with the team - what happened to Monday or Tuesday? Still .....

Blue mate I specifically STRESSED not playing all the youngsters. Then you tell me we can't play them all together! BUT that's not what GC thought last season when he signed six at once is it? The point to which you seem deliberately blind or deaf is that GC isn't playing ANY of them. That's zero, nil, none. And you tell us he's developing talent. Where? In the restaurant, in the physio's room? You bring players through by putting them in the team, blooding them, giving them a run, getting them on the bench. Like he did with Joe Rowley. But out of the 18 at Notts County we had one real youngster in Wakefield, then Brewster and Maguire who should be bustling for starter berths anyway............ WE and GC are bottom because that is what we deserve. We're failing both in the present and the future AT THE MOMENT.

But I'm genuinely hoping Blue is going to be right and I'm wrong. I'd LOVE to be wrong. I'd LOVE us to tan Port Vale. I'd love GC's moments of good football to turn into matches. But I meant it when I said our squad has baffled me. At least Flores fills a very obvious gap. He might give the defence chance to work and the midfield chance to provide some ammunition for our misfiring forwards.

I agree with Matt about our reserves except they need to play higher than the Hope Valley. Plymouth are in the SW Peninsula top section. North East Counties would be good for us. Those outside the squad on Saturday and academy players would get a tough, competitive game every week. I wouldn't be sitting here then and wondering how exactly Ricky German is supposed to go from being the centre point of every Junior Team attacking move, laying the ball off, directing play and scoring a lot of the goals too, to first team football against guys as big and strong as him who know the game even better. And we've got Amantchi too now. If Ricky can't make the breakthrough where does the lad go queueing up behind him? (That's exactly what happens at big clubs - the lad who IS ready, can't get a game so the ones behind him start thinking maybe there's be more chance at Liverpool or somewhere .........) This is why I get passionate and angry about this. In my sixty five years on the planet we've NEVER before had a batch of youngsters with the potential to make it. And we're bottom of the division and in danger of going out of the league with them having a watching brief only. We need to survive to develop the talent. And we need to develop the talent in order to survive.

The average age of the starting disaster at Notts County was 27 by the way, which isn't that bad. But the real measure is to look for players in the team whose career is on the UP by being at Chesterfield, who might thus improve. That gives us Donhue, Ugwu and Dennis, average age 24. Anyon, Hird, Evatt, Wiseman, Barry, Weir and O'Grady are slowly in decline. What being at Chesterfield means for Louis Reed I can't assess. But there's no developmental influence in evidence is there?
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#70
Apparently Donohue's off to Portsmouth any minute, so we haven't so much gained a loanee as lost last season's player of the year ........
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